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Regular Meetings

Starting in early 2008, there have been regular IRC meetings held between the
(now former) Google Summer of Code students and their
mentors. These meetings turned out to considerably help student-mentor
interactions, and other developers regularely took part, too.
For this reason, we decided to continue having these meetings, even if it's not
currently Google Summer of Code time.
Currently, the meetings take place in the #hurd channel every
Thursday at 19:00 UTC and are open to any interested party. So,
everyone, take your chance to chat with GNU Hurd developers!

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